Data centers are necessary for supporting modern infrastructure like new hospitals, but we need immediate safeguards to protect our communities.

This is a step in the right direction but we must continue taking action to prevent the negative impacts of data centers.

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April 09, 2026 - 18:27 UTC

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Data Centers should be taxed to pay for new renewable energy generation and energy storage systems, and to pay for new water desalinization plants.
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Data centres can be located in Middle East to serve US companies and citizens. That what high speed internet backbones are all about. Just a few more submarine fibre cables can accommodate moving all data centres currently in US to middle east, where they have technology and resources to run them.
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No they are not necessary. We all know there are other, better ways.
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Hell yeah, Congresswoman.
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If they have the money to build a data center, they have the money to build infrastructure to POWER it. Stop parasitizing our power grid for your profiteering.
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No, you do not need a data center to build a hospital. Or a network of hospitals. Or a University or a Manufacturing plant.

NONE OF THESE THINGS NEED DATA CENTERS.

You have already capitulated. You are not making suggestions, you are running the government. Get a spine.
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